Luminent Mortgage Capital Inc., San Francisco, has priced a public offering of 12 million shares of common stock at $14 per share.The company was formed in April 2003 to invest primarily in agency and other highly rated single-family mortgage-backed securities, Luminent said. It is externally managed and advised by Seneca Capital Management LLC and organized as a real estate investment trust. Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. is the managing underwriter of the offering, and the co-managers are Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, JMP Securities LLC, and Flagstone Securities LLC. The REIT can be found online at http://www.luminentcapital.com.
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A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.
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Issuances of new HECM-backed securities dropped off in June on both a monthly and yearly basis, according to a new report from New View Advisors.
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The vote to approve the $12 per share deal, which rejected a hostile bid from UWM Holdings, came following several postponements of a special meeting.
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A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.
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The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
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The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
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